The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Misfortunes should always be expected.